Art Spiegelman citations

Art Spiegelman est un auteur de bande dessinée et illustrateur américain, né le 15 février 1948 à Stockholm en Suède. Figure phare de la bande dessinée underground américaine des années 1970-1980, il devient surtout connu à partir du milieu des années 1980 pour sa bande dessinée Maus, qui lui a valu un Prix Pulitzer spécial en 1992. C'est également un illustrateur reconnu. Il est sacré Grand prix de la ville d'Angoulême en 2011.

✵ 15. février 1948
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Art Spiegelman: Citations en anglais

“There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.”

As quoted in "Art Spiegelman on ‘Breakdowns’ Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey" by Rebecca Milzoff in New York magazine (8 October 2008).

“Disaster is my muse.”

Source: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

“No, darling! To die it's easy… But you have to stuggle for life!”

Variante: To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.
Source: The Complete Maus

“Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.”

As quoted in "Breakfast with the FT: Art Spiegelman 'Drawn from Memory'" in Financial Times (29 November 2008).

“I was asking the school shrink, 'Has anyone ever told you the top of your head looks like a penis?' I thought that was a really funny thing to tell a bald shrink.”

As quoted in "Breakfast with the FT: Art Spiegelman 'Drawn from Memory'" in Financial Times (29 November 2008).

“A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.”

On his work Breakdowns : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! (1978; 2008) as quoted in "Art Spiegelman on ‘Breakdowns’ Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey" by Rebecca Milzoff in New York magazine (8 October 2008) http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/10/art_spiegelman_on_breakdowns_r.html.

“I became a philosophy major literally to understand why I should put up with this shit.”

After taking all the difficult art classes, Spiegelman was required to take the easy ones to obtain an arts major. He discusses here switching instead to a philosophy major; as quoted in "Breakfast with the FT: Art Spiegelman 'Drawn from Memory'" in Financial Times (29 November 2008).

“What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.”

As quoted in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick : Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings (1995) edited by Lawrence Sutin, p. x.

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